Friday, January 27th, 2006
Sun Developer Channel: 15 minute video on Ajax
Sun invited some its own team, and some outside of town to put together a fun little video on Ajax.
The 15 minute video contains:
- Chpt 1. Greg Murray – Servlet Specification/AJAX Lead
- Chpt 2. Alex Russell – Dojo Toolkit Project Lead
- Chpt 3. Dion Almaer – Ajaxian.com Founder
- Chpt 4. Tor Norbye – Senior Staff Engineer, Java Studio Creator
My video was done remotely, with green screens, and man its looks funny ;)
2.8 rating from 42 votes
Who’s that weird looking guy on the TV screen? Looks like a nerd… =)
I was excited to watch this video, then I realized that I was missing the Real plugin.
What a content delivery strategy.
Shouldn’t Sun be delivering video via Java in the browser? Ala clipstream.com? Surely Java has a higher market penetration than RealPlayer… second only to Flash.
Sorry about being critical. It just seems kind of ridiculous. But then again, I’m not a Java developer, so perhaps I’m not in their target audience.
O’hell no, I’m not investing my PC with the real junk. No way. I’m sure it’s a nice reel, but no way.
Nothing ‘fun’ about a video when Real is involved. I second the ridiculous comment.
“Real has raised antisocial software to an art form.”
Real Player Sucks
Real Player Alternative http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1054136293/1
Plays real player without all the junk
quit whining and install mplayer – http://mplayerhq.hu
Boy, no kidding about Real. The silly video konks out part way through and then it takes forever to get back to where it konked out. Happens half the time with things in Real format. For usability, it should only be used for very short items. Of course, this is a general problem with streaming video. Ajaxian got it right: let the user download the content, and play it–without konking out–at the time of their choice.
Wireless World: Enormous innovation, but big challenges
A record number of mobile phones were shipped last year, and analysts and investors are now saying that the promises made 10 years ago about the potential for the wireless economy are truly being realized. Still, some of the foremost investors and analysts tell United Press International’s Wireless World that they are nervous that the United States may not maintain its competitive edge in the global information economy unless certain changes are made — by federal policymakers and business leaders — soon.
“There is enormous innovation in our economy — no doubt,” said James Melcher, founder of the New York City-based hedge fund, Balestra Capital Management, in an interview with Wireless World. “It’s incredible. But there are problems. Why are countries with only 40 percent of the world’s population (e.g., China) graduating ten times as many engineers and scientists as we are? Why are our schools pumping out so many lawyers? There is no value-added in legal work.” By Gene Koprowski
Anyway, I spawned the Real topic not to knock the RealPlayer. I don’t criticize those who think it sucks, either. Real Alternative is also great solution that I use frequently.
My point was that Sun is deploying Real video. To me that’s like Microsoft deploying QuickTime.
Does anybody have an intelligent perspective on why Sun might go this route? I’m more interested in why, from a business perspective, this move is logical.
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Hi There,
I am interested to watch the Sun Developer Video on Ajax. I work with Mac OSX and use Safari as my browser. When I tried to watch the video I get a request to download a Real Player plugin which seems to be a trial version of their player.
Having had a bad software experience with Reals products in the past is their any other option to watch the video ?
Regards
Jim .
Jim, I definitely suggest that you e-mail the Sun people: webcast_support@sun.com
They can probably better help you with your issue. I wrote a brief letter with my thoughts and a link to this article, and a friendly developer responded with very good insights as to why Real is in use.
Good luck.